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Please change the boot order so your boot drive is the first option, set the CD-ROM as second boot option.
Please change the boot order so your boot drive is the first option, set the CD-ROM as second boot option.
Good morning Axe0. I changed the boot order to 1)HDD, 2)CD-ROM, 3)[Disabled]. It didn't change anything. With the "Valiant" drive in the dock, Windows boots OK. With the Valiant drive out of the dock, or the dock turned off, Windows throws error 0xc00000e while booting. Windows doesn't even display the small cyan "Windows" logo...it goes straight from the BIOS banner screen to the BSOD.
Switching the order of the eSATA drives on the adapter also does not change anything--it still crashes if that Valiant drive is missing and runs OK if Valiant is connected.
NOTE: Connecting Valiant through a SATA/USB adapter doesn't work--the drive isn't recognized before Windows starts to load at which point it throws the 0xc000000e BSOD.
There is a LOT of activity on this Valiant drive both when Windows is starting and when shutting down. There is some file on that drive that my running Windows configuration references and it is trying to be accessed by winload.exe early in the startup phase. Is there any clue in the Registry or the dumps as to what this file is?
Is there some sort of boot logging/tracing that can be enabled?
Thanks.
Cheers!
The zips you uploaded do not contain dumps.
Winload.exe reads the HKLM/SYSTEM hive, ntoskrnl.exe and boot device drivers into the physical memory near the start of the boot process before virtual memory paging is enabled.
Please format the recovery partition on the Valiant drive
How to delete a volume:
In an admin command prompt enter following commands
diskpartAttachment 85256
list volume
delete volume {volume number}
Hmmm, here's what I get....
Attachment 85262
The "delete volume 13" command throws an error. If I first say:
select volume 13
delete volume
then diskpart crashes. (Diskpart has stopped working... Windows is looking for a solution...)
Another option is to use Windows installer, delete the partition before installing and then abort the setup.